Dear Ubuntu Kernel Team / Ubuntu Bug Control: Hello. While triaging wireless related linux (Ubuntu) bug reports, a seemingly common misconception is that when an original reporter tests the mainline kernel, they refuse to test compat-wireless or upstream compat-wireless due to the following common response, "I already tested the mainline kernel". This seems in error, as the mainline kernel provided by the Ubuntu Kernel team https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/MainlineBuilds does not include patches in linux-next, correct? If so, it seems prudent to further clarify this in the following Ubuntu debugging articles to prevent this misconception: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/MainlineBuilds https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LinuxWireless
I came to this conclusion due to the following resources: Definition of linux-next as per upstream https://backports.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page . As per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/MainlineBuilds : >"We currently build five sets of mainline kernels. All formal tags from Linus' >tree and from the stable trees, plus: the tip of the master branch from Linus' tree daily, the tip of the drm-next head of Dave Airlie's linux repository daily, the tip of the drm-intel-next head of Keith Packard's linux repository daily, the tip of the master branch of the debloat-testing tree daily, tags from the combined v2.6.32.x.y tree (by StefanBader) which is v2.6.32.x with DRM from 2.6.33.y. This makes these kernels closer to the Lucid kernels which are based on 2.6.32 kernels with DRM backported from the 2.6.33 series." As per http://linux.f-seidel.de/linux-next/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Linux-next.FAQ : >"When and how will linux-next get into linus tree? I'll cite a email between Paolo Ciarrocchi and Stephen Rothwell to answer this: > Is Linus going to pull from that tree as soon as we reach -rc0 or this > is just a tree > used for testing what will be pushed to Linus as soon as the two weeks > merge window > open? The intention is the latter. I hope to help people sort out some of the conflicts and cross subsystem issues before we get into the merge window and the code gets into Linus' tree. Andrew Morton also hopes that the linux-next tree may get more testing that the -mm tree did if we can stop it having to many regressions by only including the less experimental code that is destined for the next kernel release." What do you think? Thank you for your time and consideration in this matter and I look forward to your response. -- Christopher M. Penalver E-Mail: [email protected] https://launchpad.net/~penalvch _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-bugcontrol Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-bugcontrol More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
